A two-year-old child died on Sunday after being hit by a small plane that swerved at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Santa Marta, a city on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.
The aircraft, an SF50 Cirrus operated by the private company Panamerican Training Center, crashed at midday during the take-off phase, investigators explained in a tweet.
The plane ended its race against a tree a few meters from the runway and near the beach where the little boy was.
“Unfortunately, we have to report that a child of about two years old who was not on the plane lost his life,” Colonel Adriana Paz, the local police commander, told the media.
The five occupants of this aircraft which was on a flight to the Colombian capital Bogota “were slightly injured” and received medical treatment, according to the official report.